Sequoia Issues

[tperry2x]

Issues with MacOS Sequoia you may want to be aware of:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/apple ... ity-tools/

I have a user here that now has issues with Firefox since updating.
Other users are reporting sporadic wifi and hardwired network dropouts.

[richmond62]

I have been entirely unaware of any of those problems:

2018 Intel Mac Mini, 8 GB RAM.

[richmond62]

Apple did not respond to requests for comment.

Usual, arrogant Apple behaviour, riding roughshod over everyone.

The problems with macOS Sequoia appear to have caused issues with Firefox browser users, too

My MacOS 15 machine is in my workplace, which I will not be near until Thursday . . .

But, on Friday, having performed the latest MacOS 15 upgrade Firefox seemed to be the same as usual.

[tperry2x]

Yes, it's weird that it's not doing the same thing for everybody.
There's a lot of talk on the net about Sequoia at the moment:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ma ... 493/page-4
https://uk.pcmag.com/security/154463/ma ... e-problems

Although I can't show the exact staff member's issue that they get, I found someone else with the exact same issue. This is after launching teams that they have to use, they get an exact repeat of this at their end:

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I did wonder if anything was down at Apple, but all their services seem to be running at the time I write this.

[richmond62]

it's not doing the same thing for everybody

Well, apart from Firefox I run NO non-apple commercial software on my MacOS box beyond BBEdit: only Open Source software.

It seems that most of the problems are related to commercial stuff such as MicroSoft products (things I have never felt good about).

[tperry2x]

Yes, I know. I wish we didn't have to use them either, but unfortunately that's where we are. These things are dictated-down to us from above, as I'm sure they are in lots of other schools and organisations for that matter.

[richmond62]

Luckily as a self-employed boss of an EFL school I have total curricular control, and what I do or don't install on my school computers.

[tperry2x]

From what I can gather, sequoia has lots of changes to networking protocols and uses a few modified APIs. So, just as well OXT isn't heavily dependent on that to function. Glad I switched to curl fully in the updater stack now.
I do expect some networking functions to not work as expected in sequoia (non-beta), so if someone could test that by trying assorted network-related commands that you find in the dictionary.